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    Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla!

    Omega Recoil Makes Art With Tesla Coils

    British Boy Embarks On "Electric Shock Free-For-All" With Bulgarian Stun Gun

    Scientist Tries to Create a Phaser to Shoot Lightning Balls

    The Best Way To Cook Hot Dogs: by Tesla Coil

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    Awesome Red Alert Tesla Coil Makes Quick Work of Allied Soldiers

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    Image of the_Sleepwalker the_Sleepwalker
    07/10/09

    In reply to Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla!
    David Bowie says thank you on Nikola's behalf.

    http://www.allmoviephoto.com/photo/2006_the_prestige_004.html
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    Image of Magicant Magicant
    07/10/09

    In reply to Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla!
    "Stuff you should know" did a nice podcast on Tesla not long ago. Never knew how big his contribution to the world was, since Edison gets all the press. Article below:

    http://science.howstuffworks.com/nikola-tesla.htm
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    07/10/09

    In reply to Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla!
    too bad his wireless power tech got canned because nobody could figure out how to charge money for it. had he been more properly funded, i have no doubt we really would have flying cars by now.
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    Image of Killjoy Killjoy
    07/10/09

    @nutbastard: I'd say you're right about that - his flying car concept was later proven to work.
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    Image of GodfreyOriole GodfreyOriole
    07/10/09

    In reply to Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla!
    I live on long island and one of his buildings stilll stands.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower

    Its pretty cool . The are trying to make a museum out of it.

    Thoe tower is not there but the building still is.

    Its so cool how tesla, edison, and Marconi where all doing some cool things in the nyc, long island area.
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    Image of PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:
    07/10/09

    In reply to Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla!
    Thank you for the Tesla Coil, it sure made Red Alert 100x easier to beat.
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    Image of 32ndnote 32ndnote
    07/10/09

    In reply to Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla!
    Nikola, I salute you, your people, and your country.
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    Image of jmposvip jmposvip
    07/11/09

    @32ndnote: Nikola Tesla is from Croatia...you got the wrong flag....
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    Image of 32ndnote 32ndnote
    07/11/09

    @jmposvip: Actually, when he was born, it was still Serbia. (source: nerdy Serbian girlfriend) It's now modern Croatia. All those Slovak nations have gotten pretty messed up since the mid 1800s.
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    Image of jmposvip jmposvip
    07/13/09

    @32ndnote: Actually,when he was born,it wasn't Serbia,it was Yugoslavia.Serbia,Croatia and other country's where part of Yugoslavia.Nikola Tesla was from Croatia.Your girlfriend should really read a history book.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    07/10/09

    In reply to Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla!
    i think Janet Jackson said it best with: What have you done for me lately?

    ooooohh ooohh oooh yea.
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    Image of Darrone Darrone
    07/10/09

    In reply to Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla!
    I'm pretty sure if he played 5 minutes of Red Alert, he's throw up. Not sure where he stands on "The Prestige" though.. Good movie.
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    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    07/10/09

    In reply to Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla!
    Happy B-Day! If you have some time this is a great video about the man:
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    Image of Shindokie Shindokie
    06/18/09

    In reply to Omega Recoil Makes Art With Tesla Coils
    The song they are playing is Hikari by Utada Hikaru... or the person who wrote it. Nice electricity!
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    Image of CatboyMac's angry girlfriend CatboyMac's angry girlfriend
    06/18/09

    In reply to Omega Recoil Makes Art With Tesla Coils
    I don't know how Tesla got away with stealing so many of his inventions from Edison.
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    Image of Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo
    06/18/09

    @CatboyMac's angry girlfriend: I thought it was the other way around.
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    Image of InvaderPhlegm InvaderPhlegm
    06/19/09

    @Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo: It is the other way around. CatboyMac's angry girlfriend is just being funny.
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    Image of The_Gas_Man The_Gas_Man
    03/14/09

    In reply to British Boy Embarks On "Electric Shock Free-For-All" With Bulgarian Stun Gun
    Giz:

    No, "stun gun" could not easily be replaced with "gun". The kid did not want to go around shooting people. He just wanted to go around shocking them to be a tease/bully. "but he probably didn't know" the stun gun could not kill someone? Of course this 13 year old knew stun guns don't kill people. Good lord, guys, wake up!


    Further, the Bulgarians would not have sold the kid a "gun" like they did with the "stun gun".


    And by the way, why did you never mention the boy's parents?


    Lastly, the "capable of up to 30,000 volts" line is needlessly thrown in to scare/impress us with a large/scary sounding amount of electricity when you (should) know that doesn't mean anything without knowing how much amperage it outputs.


    < / rant >


    I still love you guys, I swear.

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    03/14/09

    @The_Gas_Man: I agree with you. 30,000 volts is nothing. My college friend got one and zapped himself to see what it felt like. He was fine.


    In fact, even in the same article above, it says this:


    "In 2007 a teenager was sentenced to six years in a young offenders institute for electrocuting a teacher with a stun gun of almost one million volts in an unprovoked attack in Bristol."


    So yeah... there are worse things out there. That kid would have done more damage by punching other kids.

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    Image of fluxlasers fluxlasers
    03/14/09

    In reply to British Boy Embarks On "Electric Shock Free-For-All" With Bulgarian Stun Gun
    Don't blame the Bulgarians, I live in the UK and I got a stun gun from USA (via eBay) for $15. Also, I heard on the News last week that the Mexican drug gangs were buying most of their guns from American gun shops.


    BTW I got the stun gun for the high voltages components - not to stun people.

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    Image of object object
    03/14/09

    @fluxlasers: In America, to buy a firearm, you must have at least a green card, have resided in the state for at least 90 days, and be able to show government issued photo id. Then when you purchase the firearm, it is registered to you. 'Mexican gang' members are not going to go walk into a gun store and try to buy a gun. Either they are not in the country legally, or if they are, they dont want a gun they might use to kill someone to be in their name.


    [www.atf.gov]

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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    03/14/09

    @object:


    Gun shows are a whole different deal tho ...

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    Image of ron___b ron___b
    03/14/09

    @object: That's so naive it's almost cute. Get real, you can easily buy guns in many states without all of that.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    03/14/09

    @ron___b: I just go to my guy in the parking lot on Wednesdays at 1.15 AM. He sets me up with guns, crack and hookers.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    03/14/09

    In reply to British Boy Embarks On "Electric Shock Free-For-All" With Bulgarian Stun Gun
    alright, i will say.


    "Don't tase me bro."


    Flame on.

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    Image of tkohrs2002 tkohrs2002
    03/14/09

    In reply to British Boy Embarks On "Electric Shock Free-For-All" With Bulgarian Stun Gun
    People vacation in Eastern Europe?
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    03/14/09

    @tkohrs2002: Apparently, they were there for the skiing.


    "the boy had bought the stun gun for £15 while on a skiing trip to Bulgaria in February with their father and other brother"


    It seems like they are more of the jet-setting wealthy type than going-to-get-drunk backpackers.

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